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November 7th Workshop-Cultivating Informational Literacy

Activity #1: Looking at Reading Informational text K-12- comparing language


reading standards for informational texts DeKalb Ag class.docx


What is Informational Text?

http://umaine.edu/edhd/professionals/mels/correll-book-award/what-is-informational-text/

Informational text is defined as text with the primary purpose of expressing information about the arts, sciences, or social studies. This text ranges from newspaper and magazine articles to digital information to nonfiction trade books to textbooks and reference materials.
The CCSS specify four types of informational text: literary nonfiction, expository, argument or persuasion, and procedural. -from "Booklist" article, American Library Association

Scholastic Article: The Difference Between Informational Text and Non-fiction

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/pdfs/duke_sample_pages.pdf

Types of Informational Text:

Pass around examples...

Why do we read Informational Text?

Brainstorm list

Text Structure

Compare and Contrast
Problem/Solution
Question/Answer
Description
Chronological
Cause and Effect

Text Features

Why are there text features?
  • Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.
  • Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
  • Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text.
Teaching tools for text features: http://page.reallygoodstuff.com/pdfs/157556.pdf
  • Bold
  • Graphs
  • Maps
  • Illustrations
  • Diagrams
  • Clipart
  • All Caps
  • Color
  • Italics
  • Underline
  • Highlight
  • Borders
  • Headings
  • Table of Contents
  • Insets and sidebars
  • Bullets
  • Numbering
  • Photos
  • Asterisks
  • Stars
  • Timelines
  • Glossary
  • Captions and Labels
  • Index

Informational Text Examples/Activities:

Wonderopolis

http://wonderopolis.org/
Can you grow candy corn?
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/can-you-grow-candy-corn/

How-to guide

How to make an erupting volcano
http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/volcano.php
  • What supplies do you need?
  • What will you do first?
  • What is the last thing you will need to do?
  • Where should you do thist activity?
  • What is a question you have?
  • Do you think you could do this?
  • What are some things that might go wrong?

Infographic

http://www.usdairy.com/Sustainability/Pages/Council-Toolkit.aspx#InfographicLibrary
3-2-1 sheet:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson951/strategy.pdf

What is happening in the Photo?

Close Observation and Purposeful Questions
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2011/09/engaging-learning-purposeful-questions-close-observation/
Photo
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/nclc.04521/

Primary Source- Hide & Seek

Hide & Seek on Mulberry Street
http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/09/hide-and-seek-on-mulberry-street-with-the-library-of-congress/

Newspaper

From Reading Rockets: Newspaper Activity ideas
Searching the Paper
Skills: Student effectively skims and scans for information.
Have your students find each of the following in the newspaper:
  • someone wearing glasses
  • map
  • animal
  • television listing
  • the name of your city
  • athlete
  • action word
  • television star
  • cartoon
  • story about another country
  • letter from a reader
  • movie review or ad

Strategies to teach informational text:

Collaborative Strategic Reading

Before reading:
  • Preview-Brainstorm, Predict
  • Purpose-Set a purpose, Why am I reading this?
During reading:
  • Click-What did I learn
  • Clunk-What was hard to understand?
  • Connect-What did I know before that I can connect to this new information?
  • Get the Gist-What is the most important person/place/thing in this section?
After Reading
  • Wrap it up-Ask questions, clarify
  • Monitor for Understanding-Review, what did we learn?

Resources/Materials


CCSS Appendix B-Examples of Informational Texts (Pages 28-35)

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf

eReading Worksheet-

Detecting types of text structure and pulling out examples
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/identifying-text-structure-1.pdf

The Common Core Lesson Book

http://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/e04293/common_core_lesson_book_sample2.pdf

How to get to Library of Congress Primary Source Theme sets

(they did the work for you!)
http://primarysourcenexus.org/psn-resources/themed-link-sets/

Library of Congress

Informational Text resources
http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2013/02/informational-text-the-common-core-and-the-library-of-congress-a-resource-center-rich-with-primary-sources-and-teacher-tools/
Analyze a Primary Source
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/primary-source-analysis-tool/
Analyzing Primary Source Materials-Matching up to Reading Anchor Standards
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/03/analyzing-primary-source-images-common-core-state-standards-alignment/
Thinking Triangle
http://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/04/connecting-common-core-primary-source-thinking-triangle-activity/

Strategies for Reading Informational Text

http://iteachicoachiblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/five-simple-close-reading-strategies.html

Read.Write.Think.

ReadWriteThink- Building Comprehension with Informational Text

Common Core Resources


Reading Informational Text


ISBE Resource for Teaching and Instruction Resources

http://www.isbe.net/common_core/pdf/ela-teach-strat-read-text-k-5.pdf

Nebraska- Student friendly language-ELA CCSS (I Can Statements)

http://www.education.ne.gov/read/StudentFriendlyStandards/

The Common Core and Close Reading- An Outcome Not a Reading Strategy

http://dconrad3.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/common-core-close-reading-an-outcome-not-a-reading-strategy/